Empress Enquiry

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 29, 24 June 1914, Page 5

Empress Enquiry

SALVAGE ATTEMPTS CONTINUE. A DIVER KILLED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Ottawa, June 2i

■Efforts to recover the bodies from the hull of t)ie Empress of Ireland cost the life of a diver named Cossoboom. After Cossobounr had been down thirty minutes the uuu on the surface signalled, and receiving no answer another Hiver went down and found Cossoboom lying unconscious across his lifeline. He (lied after coming to the surface.

ENTOMBED BODIES MUST REMAIN. Received 23, 10.30 p.m. Quebec, June 23. All attempts to get the eight hundred bodies entombed in the sunken hull of the Empress of Ireland have been abandoned, following on a conference between liient-Commandir Forlecs and the divers of the man-of-war Essex at the scene of the wreck, as the result of the death Of Cossboom on Sunday from a fall off the slijny hull. This decision of the Canadian-Pacific Railway Co. will not affect the operations of the company which is attempting to salvage the ship, bat it is thought they will have to givt up diving operations.

AID FOR THE VICTIMS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 23, pan. London, June 23. TheVUew Zealand Shipping Co. has wnttfeed a hundred guineas to the Loiiftlayor's Empress of Ireland fund. ' y New York, June 23. Mr. J. D. Rockefeller has contributed 11,000 dollars for the relief of the relatives of the' Salvationist victiins in the Empress of (Ireland disaster.